Description

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 HIGH STREET
739-1/4/47 (West side)
19/06/75 No.26
National Westminster Bank
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
National Westminster Bank)

GV II

Attached house and shop, now bank. Late C18 with mid C20
alterations. Colourwashed render with stone dressings, pantile
roof with south gable and ridge rendered stacks.
STYLE: Late Georgian.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 6-window range. Ground-floor has Regency
style mid C20 bank frontage articulated by Doric pilasters
supporting an entablature; 6 recessed 12-pane sash windows
with incised panels below and 2 recessed panelled doors with
rectangular fanlights. The main doorway is in the second bay
to left; further doorway to end bay on right. The
configuration of the original 2 properties is denoted by the
spacing of the upper-floor windows: 2 plate-glass sashes
widely spaced to left-hand (former house) and similar sashes
closer together to right-hand (former shop).
INTERIOR: nothing survives inside either of the original room
layout or any architectural features of note.
(Lowe B and Whitehead M: The Changing Face of Keynsham in Old
Photographs: Stroud: 1994-: 62).

Listing NGR: ST6539468739

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664441

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings